The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-04
st. Louis Refuses to Play.


threatening weather, a crowd of abou. tour
thousand people were present when tho game
between St Louis and Louisville called to-
day. Hudson and Boyle, and Ramsey and
Kerins were the batteries respectively. for the
visitors and the home club. The Browns were
first at the bat, and went out in one, two, three
order For the Louisvilles, Browning started
the ball rolling by making a home run after two
men had been put out. Four runs followed be-
fore the nine was retired. Hudson being ham
mered viciously. In the second inning ST Louis
scored one run by the aid of some loose playing
by Louisville. 1t began sprinklinc lightly in
the latter half of the inning. after Louisville
had scored two runs and demonstrated that they
would knock Hudson out of the box II the
game continued. The umpire called the game,
and waited teE minutes, 1t continuing In the
meantime to rain SO lightly that the uncovered
seats were not vacated by the people. he de-
cided that the game should continue, but St.
Louis refused to play, whereupon he gave the
game to Louisville by a score of to Q. The
crowd greatly Disguised but made no dem
onstration beyond some jeering. After the
crowd had dispersed President Won der Abe
and Captain Comiskey stated that they would
not protest against umpire Ben eung's decision.
it was just. They said also. that they re-
GREETED their action in disappointing the crowd.
stopped by Rain.
CINcINNATI, July 3.--Kirby OF the Glove
lands, was knocked out of the box in tho first
inning to-day, eight runs being made before a
man was retired. Reccius took his place and
Jared badly. Rain prevented play after the sec
ond inning. The score was Ii to 0 in favor of
the Cincinnati club.
Baseball Notes.
Nineteen victories and six defeats is Keefe's
record to date.
Burch is to be released by the Brooklyns
when they can get man to take his place.
DAWN the center fielder of the Portland club,
is of the heavy htters of the base ball field.
The Boston Globe says that while the Leag-
uers are away dropping games the Blues remain
at home and win.
The residence of Paul Hines entered at
Washington a few days and robbed of one thou
sand dollars worth of jewelry.
Schriever. formerly of the Brooklyns. is doing
great batting for the Scranton club. Schriever
was very weak with the stick.
Mccormick has added another game to his vic
tory column. This is the fourth game of
the fourteen played by the big Pittsburg pitcher.
Detroit has to be ented with third place in
the teams batting the New YorKs first,
with a percentage of 1885, Chicago being second,
with BAT.
The Specials defeated the Skylightp. IL to 81,
yesterday. The batteries were Schultz and j.
Riley for the Specials, and Wechsler and GlnEel
for the Skylights.
The game at Danvle, ILL.,, yesterday. between
the Prickly Ash club, of ST. Louis. aud the
Platts. of Danvlle. resulted in favor of the
Platts by score of IL to B.
A short lesson in multiples for Mr. Kirby:
Eight times nine are seventytwo That is to
say. eight runs each inning would amount to
seventy-two at the end of the game.
The Duluth papers fairly teem with fatterins
notices of the brilliant batting and fielding of
Joe Quinn. He has caught big at the Lake
city, and is making s., 900 for the season.
Several papers give prominence to the fact
that Pittsburg would like to have Arthur Irwin
to play short-stop and captain it's team, but he is
not one of the men that the Phillies will release
Yet he was offered to the Indianapolis club for
800.
The indianapolis management showed good
sense in selling Kirby. Many persons will re-
gard his record of yesterday as about the size of
his ability to pitch under the rules, not
withstanding his talk about not giving the club
his best efforts.
Milwaukee Sentinel: The people of Indianap-
oils put money into a base ball club in order to
advertise the city" The saloon keepers prob
ably put in most of the money, as the club has
succeeded most in advertising the potency OF
Indianapolis drinks.
George Miller leads the League catchers, with
Briody second. Tate third, Camel fourth, DAILY
tWashington) fifth, Daily tChicago) sixth, Flint
seventh, Myers eighth, Deaslev ninth and Car
roll tenth Cusick, Darling and Brown, of New
York, follow up the rear.
Mr.. Bassett, the popular second baseman of
the Indianapolis club, is said to be graduate of
ball player. and when not engaged in playing
with his nine can be found about the commons
holding down a base for some amateur club.
The tweve-club league and the Eastern and
rents but there does not TO be any like
lihood of either succeeding the present organiza-
tons 1883, the public will likely be spared the
infiiction of any further news upon the subject.
In the meantime the National League Is looking
to its fences for 1888.
Before pitcher Kirbys departure for Cncin-
natl to join tho Clevelands he is said to have
remarked that he didn't like to play in Indian
apos. and for that reason retrained from giving
the club his best efforts but that from now
he intended to redeem himself and pitch ball for
all he knew how. He pitched against Cincinnati
yesterday and was knocked out of the box in the
first inning, allowing his opponents to make
eight runs off one of ''his best efforts"
O'Day, who pitches for the Wash;ngtons to-
day, is Chicago boy, whose parents still live
out on West Jackson street His brother jim
my is known In that neiehborhood a Demo-
cratic politician, and ODay once had lopgings
for political honors. But he gave these up for
baseball, went South. joined the Southern
League went thence to Detroit, with whom he
was never gwen chance to play. and was
leased TO Washington by the Detroits for some
thing moro than he had cost them.
He Is Grateful.